Let's take comprehensive view of Currencies segment. The Currencies segment of the US stock market is best represented by UUP - exchange traded fund that tracks US dollar against group of other major currencies - Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc.

Year to date, US Dollar as represented by
UUP is up by 6.78% and is currently outperforming the market (S&P 500) by 6.52%.

The following table helps investors and traders sort through current performance of various
currencies ETFs.

One can glean long and short term trends by
sorting currencies ETF list by performance over daily, weekly or year-to-date periods. There are different varieties of currencies ETFs - Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

Traders and speculators can hedge or take advantage of market pullbacks by betting on bearish (inverse) ETFs that move in opposite direction to underlying index. Currencies traders can enhance their performances by trading leveraged bearish ETFs that double or triple inverse the daily returns of Currencies indexes.